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2005 Texas Big Year--Day by Day

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2013 South Dakota - Pennington County - Big Years "A" and "B"
2013 BIG YEAR B - Pennington Co. - Day-by-Day- begins July 1
2013 BIG YEAR A - Pennington Co. Day-by-day - begins January 1
2013 - Big Year C (Sept 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014)
2013 - where I birded (goes into 2014 for big year B)
2013 - photos, South Dakota
Honduras - February 2013
2014 Birds Seen in SD (Pennington Co.)
2014 - day by day
2014 - 2015 - Alaska!
2016 AK bird checklist
2016 Day-by-day AK BIG YEAR
2016 Where I birded
2017 - Birds Seen in AK (NOT a big year)
(see 2005 List page and the index sidebar for taxonomic-order lists)

The List--Day by Day--522 (not counting the Vaux's Swift) Species for 2005
(42 Texas Review Species as far as I can tell--these species are in bold and underlined below; see comments at bottom of TBRC Texas list page for elaboration)
 
1. Jan 1 (Wharton) American Crow
2. (Matagorda) Red-tailed Hawk
3. Mourning Dove
4. American Robin
5. European Starling
6. House Sparrow
7. Great-tailed Grackle
8. American Kestrel
9. Northern Mockingbird
10. Belted Kingfisher
11. Savannah Sparrow
12. Yellow-rumped Warbler
13. Cooper's Hawk
14. Cedar Waxwing
15. Eastern Bluebird
16. Carolina Chickadee
17. Common Grackle
18. Spotted Sandpiper
19. Crested Caracara
20. Downy Woodpecker
21. Blue Jay
22. Eastern Phoebe
23. American Goldfinch
24. Pine Warbler
25. Inca Dove
26. Killdeer
27. Red-winged Blackbird
28. White Ibis
29. Great Egret
30. Bronzed Cowbird
31. Carolina Wren
32. Chipping Sparrow
33. White-faced Ibis
34. Northern Cardinal
35. Great Blue Heron
36. Loggerhead Shrike
37. Turkey Vulture
38. Osprey
39. Pileated Woodpecker
40. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
41. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
42. Black Vulture
43. Northern Harrier
44. Tricolored Heron
45. Snowy Egret
46. American Coot
47. Common Moorhen
48. Northern Pintail
49. Pied-billed Grebe
50. Northern Shoveler
51. Gadwall
52. Green-winged Teal
53. Snow Goose
54. Greater White-fronted Goose
55. American Pipit
56. Sandhill Crane
57. White-tailed Hawk
58. Eurasian Collared-Dove
59. Canada Goose
60. Ross's Goose
61. Cackling Goose
62. Lesser Scaup
63. Brown Pelican
64. Bald Eagle
65. Laughing Gull
66. Bufflehead
67. Common Goldeneye
68. Common Loon
69. Ruddy Turnstone
70. American White Pelican
71. Blue-winged Teal
72. Fulvous Whistling-Duck
73. Ring-necked Duck
74. Ruddy Duck
75. Cinnamon Teal
76. Least Grebe
77. Sora
78. Royal Tern
70. Double-crested Cormorant
80. Mottled Duck
81. Roseate Spoonbill
82. Black-crowned Night-Heron
83. Jan. 2 (Hidalgo) Rock Pigeon
84. Plain Chachalaca
85. House Wren
86. Long-billed Thrasher
87. White-tipped Dove
88. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
89. Orange-crowned Warbler
90. Great Kiskadee
91. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
92. White-eyed Vireo
93. Summer Tanager
94. Clay-colored Robin
95. Black-crested Titmouse
96. Wilson's Warbler
97. Buff-bellied Hummingbird
98. Crimson-collared Grosbeak
99. Common Ground-Dove
100. Green-breasted Mango
101. White-winged Dove
102. Black-and-white Warbler
103. Couch's Kingbird
104. Sharp-shinned Hawk
105. Jan 3 (Cameron) Ringed Kingfisher
106. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
107. Altamira Oriole
108. Lincoln's Sparrow
109. Blue-headed Vireo
110. Black-throated Green Warbler
111. Olive Sparrow
112. Solitary Sandpiper
113. Green Jay
114. Groove-billed Ani
115. Neotropic Cormorant
116. White-tailed Kite
117. Chihuahuan Raven
118. Harris's Hawk
119. Herring Gull
120. Ring-billed Gull
121. Forster's Tern
122. Sanderling
123. Willet
124. Snowy Plover
125. Caspian Tern
126. Black-legged Kittiwake (added to review list in July)
127. Reddish Egret
128. Long-billed Curlew
129. Gull-billed Tern
130. Dunlin
131. Least Sandpiper
132. Sandwich Tern
133. Black-bellied Plover
134. Western Sandpiper
135. Lesser Yellowlegs
136. Black Skimmer
137. Black-necked Stilt
138. Piping Plover
139. Northern Flicker
140. Clapper Rail
141. Least Bittern
142. Little Blue Heron
143. Virginia Rail
144. Common Yellowthroat
145. Greater Yellowlegs
146. Jan. 4 (Starr) American Wigeon
147. Red-shouldered Hawk
148. Muscovy Duck
149. Green Kingfisher
150. Hooded Oriole
151. Audubon's Oriole
152. Bewick's Wren
153. Hook-billed Kite
154. Eastern Screech-Owl
155. Song Sparrow
156. Brown Jay
157. (Zapata) Vermilion Flycatcher
158. Verdin
159. White-crowned Sparrow
160. Jan. 5 (Frio) House Finch
161. Pyrrhuloxia
162. Brown-headed Cowbird
163. Cordilleran Flycatcher
164. Rufous-capped Warbler
165. Hermit Thrush
166. Lark Sparrow
167. (Zavala) Merlin
168. Say's Phoebe
169. (Uvalde) Curve-billed Thrasher
170. Cactus Wren
171. (Val Verde) White-throated Swift
172. (Terrell) Western Meadowlark
173. Jan. 6 (Presidio) Eastern Meadowlark
174. Lark  Bunting
175. Brewer's Sparrow
176. Vesper Sparrow
177. Chestnut-collared Longspur
178. Baird's Sparrow
179. Horned Lark
180. Roadrunner
181. (Brewster) Mountain Bluebird
182. Phainopepla
183. Golden Eagle
184. Gray Hawk
185. Common Raven
186. Clay-colored Sparrow
187. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
188. Black-throated Gray Warbler
189. Green-tailed Towhee
190. Spotted Towhee
191. Jan. 7 (Brewster) Anna's Hummingbird
192. Western Scrub-Jay
193. Pine Siskin
194. Dark-eyed Junco
195. Canyon Towhee
196. Red-breasted Nuthatch
197. White-breasted Nuthatch
198. Rock Wren
199. Black Phoebe
200. Swamp Sparrow
201. Wilson's Snipe
202. (Jeff Davis) Western Bluebird
203. Lesser Goldfinch
204. Acorn Woodpecker
205. Red-naped Sapsucker
206. Brewer's Blackbird
207. (Reeves) Cassin's Sparrow
208. Sage Sparrow
209. Western Grebe
210. Clark's Grebe
211. Jan. 8 (Lubbock) Townsend's Solitaire
212. (Hockley) Ferruginous Hawk
213. (Lamb) Rough-legged Hawk
214. (Castro) Common Pheasant
215. Mallard
216. (Hartley) Great Horned Owl
217. Hooded Merganser
218. Jan. 9 (Dallam) American Tree Sparrow
219. McCown's Longspur
220. Long-eared Owl
221. (Hansford) Prairie Falcon
222. Lapland Longspur
223. Yellow-headed Blackbird
224. Jan. 10 (Hemphill) Wild Turkey
225. Red-bellied Woodpecker
226. Common Merganser
227. Canvasback
228. Field Sparrow
229. Harris's Sparrow
230. (Dickens) Tundra Swan
231. Jan. 11 (Tarrant) Rufous Hummingbird
232. Greater Scaup
233. Jan. 12 (Tarrant) Short-eared Owl
234. Jan. 13 (Hardeman) Northern Bobwhite
235. (Grayson) White-throated Sparrow
236. Fox Sparrow
237. Winter Wren
238. Jan. 14 (Jim Wells) Anhinga
239. (Hidalgo) Ovenbird
240. White-throated Robin
241. Social Flycatcher
242. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
243. Common Pauraque
244. Jan. 15 (Hidalgo) Black-headed Grosbeak
245. Red-crowned Parrot
246. Elegant Trogon
247. Blue Mockingbird
248. Lesser Nighthawk
249. (Cameron) Golden-crowned Warbler
250. (Willacy) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
251. (Kenedy) Eared Grebe
252. Cattle Egret
253. Jan. 16 (Tarrant) Brown Creeper
254. Wood Duck
255. Redhead
256. Jan. 18 (Harris) Tufted Titmouse
257. Calliope Hummingbird
258. Broad-billed Hummingbird
259. Purple Finch
260. (Brazoria) Bonaparte's Gull
261. Little Gull
262. Lesser Black-backed Gull
263. Red-breasted Merganser
264. Gray Catbird
265. Least Flycatcher
266. Brown Thrasher
267. Jan. 19 (Galveston) American Avocet
268. American Oystercatcher
269. Semipalmated Plover
270. Peregrine Falcon
271. (Chambers) Seaside Sparrow
272. Jan. 20 (Webb) White-collared Seedeater
273. Nashville Warbler
274. (Zapata) Zone-tailed Hawk
275. Blue Bunting
276. Jan. 22 (Williamson) Mountain Plover
277. Sprague's Pipit
278. Jan. 24 (Brewster) Black-throated Sparrow
279. Ruddy Ground-Dove
280. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
281. Mexican Jay
282. Jan. 25 (Hudspeth) Horned Grebe
283. Jan. 26 (Reeves) Sage Thrasher
284. (Ward) Crissal Thrasher
285. Jan. 28 (Johnson) Rusty Blackbird
286. Golden-crowned Kinglet
287. (Tarrant) American Woodcock
288. Jan. 30 (Aransas NWR--Matagorda Co.?) Whooping Crane
289. Jan. 31 (Nueces) Long-billed Dowitcher
290. Northern Gannet
291. Red Knot
292. Marbled Godwit
293. (Kleberg) Cave Swallow
294. (Kenedy) Purple Martin
295. Feb. 1 (Cameron) Rose-throated Becard
296. American Redstart
297. Feb. 4 (Tarrant) Monk Parakeet
298. (Llano) California Gull
299. Pacific Loon
300. Feb. 5 (Zapata) Roadside Hawk
301. Feb. 6 (Reeves) Tree Swallow
302. Scaled Quail
303. Feb. 7 (Culberson) Steller's Jay
304. Mountain Chickadee
305. Canyon Wren
306. Feb. 9 (Dallam) Cassin's Finch
307. (Moore) Northern Shrike
308. Feb. 11 (Fort Bend) Streak-backed Oriole
309. (Harris) Louisiana Waterthrush
310. Feb. 12 (Chambers) Barn Owl
311. (Jefferson) Eastern Towhee
312. Boat-tailed Grackle
313. Marsh Wren
314. Prairie Warbler
315. Feb. 13 (Rains) Smith's Longspur
316. LeConte's Sparrow
317. Feb. 16 (Rains) Long-tailed Duck
318. Feb. 17 (Cameron) Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
319. (Hidalgo) Green Parakeet
320. Feb. 18 (Cameron) Dusky-capped Flycatcher
321. Barn Swallow
322. (Hidalgo) Cliff Swallow
323. Bank Swallow
324. Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
325. Tropical Parula
326. Feb. 23 (Aransas) Allen's Hummingbird
327. (Nueces) Short-billed Dowitcher
328. Thayer's Gull
329. Feb. 26 (Nacogdoches) Henslow's Sparrow
330. Red-headed Woodpecker
331. Hairy Woodpecker
332. Feb. 27 (Jasper) Red-cockaded Woodpecker
333. Brown-headed Nuthatch
334. Bachman's Sparrow
335. Feb. 28 (Nueces) Brown Booby
336. Mar. 2 (Starr) Red-billed Pigeon
337. Ash-throated Flycatcher
338. (Cameron) Great Black-backed Gull
339. Mar. 5 (Brooks) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
340. Mar. 6 (Cameron) Stilt Sandpiper
341. Common Tern
342. Mar. 7 (Nueces) American Bittern
343. Green Heron
344. Mar. 14 (Jeff Davis) Red-breasted Sapsucker
345. Bushtit
346. (Brewster) Gray Flycatcher
347. Mar. 15 (Brewster) Violet-green Swallow
348. Hutton's Vireo
349. Townsend's Warbler
350. Mar. 16 (Brewster) Black-chinned Hummingbird
351. Virginia's Warbler
352. Mar. 18 (Galveston) Least Tern
353. Wilson's Plover
354. American Golden-Plover
355. Whimbrel
356. Northern Parula
357. Red-eyed Vireo
358 (Jefferson) Yellow-throated Warbler
359. Eastern Kingbird
360. Mar. 19 (Grayson) Red-throated Loon
361. Mar. 22 (Nueces) Hooded Warbler
362. Yellow-throated Vireo
363. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
364. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
365. Mar. 23 (Nueces) Chimney Swift
366. Glaucous Gull
367. (Victoria) Swainson's Hawk
368. Mar. 27 (Galveston) Chuck-will's-widow
369. Mar. 28 (Galveston) Broad-winged Hawk
370. Sedge Wren
371. Palm Warbler
372. Black Rail
373. Semipalmated Sandpiper
374. Great Crested Flycatcher
375. Mar. 29 (Jefferson) Indigo Bunting
376. Fish Crow
377. Wood Thrush
378. Whip-poor-will
379. King Rail
380. (Chambers) Baird's Sandpiper
381. Pectoral Sandpiper
382. Mar. 30 (Liberty) Upland Sandpiper
383. Prothonotary Warbler
384. Barred Owl
385. Apr. 2 (Colorado) Buff-breasted Sandpiper
386. Grasshopper Sparrow
387. Apr. 3 (Chambers) Yellow Rail
388. Apr. 4 (Briscoe) Burrowing Owl
389. Apr. 5 (Lipscomb) Lesser Prairie-Chicken
390. (Hemphill) Franklin's Gull
391. Apr. 9 (Bosque) Golden-cheeked Warbler
392. Apr. 10 (Fayette) Mississippi Kite
393. Apr. 11 (Nueces) Masked Duck
394. Western Kingbird
395. White-rumped Sandpiper
396. Orchard Oriole
397. Tennessee Warbler
398. Blue-winged Warbler
399. Canada Warbler
400. Yellow-breasted Chat
401. Northern Waterthrush
402. Apr. 12 (Nueces) Yellow Warbler
403. Apr. 17 (Galveston) Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
404. King Eider
405. Glossy Ibis
406. Scarlet Tanager
407. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
408. Swainson's Thrush
409. (Chambers) Purple Gallinule
410. Apr. 18 (Jefferson) Blue Grosbeak
411. Veery
412. Chestnut-sided Warbler
413. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
414. Worm-eating Warbler
415. Kentucky Warbler
416. Baltimore Oriole
417. Apr. 19 (Galveston) Common Nighthawk
418. (Jefferson) Acadian Flycatcher
419. Warbling Vireo
420. Painted Bunting
421. Eastern Wood-Pewee
422. Gray-cheeked Thrush
423. Bobolink
424. Cape May Warbler
425. Apr. 20 (Jefferson) Blackpoll Warbler
426. Apr. 21 (Chambers) Wilson's Phalarope
427. Apr. 22 (Jefferson) Dickcissel
428. Black Tern
429. Blackburnian Warbler
430. Apr. 25 (Jefferson) Bay-breasted Warbler
431. Apr. 26 (Jefferson) Philadelphia Vireo
432. Cerulean Warbler
433. Apr. 27 (Calhoun) Yellow-green Vireo
434. Magnolia Warbler
435. (Nueces) Magnificent Frigatebird
436. Apr. 28 (Chambers) Hudsonian Godwit
437. (Jefferson) Black-whiskered Vireo
438. Golden-winged Warbler
439. May 1 (Freestone) Swainson's Warbler
440. (Liberty) Swallow-tailed Kite
441. (Jefferson) Black-billed Cuckoo
442. May 2 (Kenedy) Brown-crested Flycatcher
443. (Cameron) Botteri's Sparrow
444. Tamaulipas Crow
445. May 3 (Hidalgo) Tropical Kingbird
446. (Cameron) Willow Flycatcher
447. Olive-sided Flycatcher
448. May 4 (Burnet) Black-capped Vireo
449. May 7 (Tarrant) Bell's Vireo
450. May 10 (Jeff Davis) Cassin's Kingbird
451. Western Tanager
452. Common Black-Hawk
453. Western Wood-Pewee
454. (Brewster) Bullock's Oriole
455. Lucy's Warbler
456. Scott's Oriole
457. Elf Owl
458. May 11 (Brewster) Colima Warbler
459. Painted Redstart
460. Blue-throated Hummingbird
461. Band-tailed Pigeon
462. Western Screech-Owl
463. Flammulated Owl
464. May 12 (Brewster) Varied Bunting
465. May 13 (Jeff Davis) Black-chinned Sparrow
466. Common Poorwill
467. May 14 (Jeff Davis) Hepatic Tanager
468. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
469. Plumbeous Vireo
470. Grace's Warbler
471. Buff-breasted Flycatcher
472. May 15 (Brewster) Montezuma Quail
473. May 16 (Presidio) Gambel's Quail
474. May 18 (Jeff Davis) MacGillivray's Warbler
475. Dusky Flycatcher
476. May 19 (Culberson) Gray Vireo
477. May 21 (Brewster) Lucifer Hummingbird
478. May 28 (Brazoria) Wood Stork
479. May 29 (Jeff Davis) Olive Warbler
480. June 1 (Tarrant) Alder Flycatcher
481. June 3 (Comal) Green Violet-ear
482. June 17 (Cameron) Masked Booby
483. Red-billed Tropicbird
484. Cory's Shearwater
485. Bridled Tern'
486. Sooty Tern
487. Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
488. Leach's Storm-Petrel
489. Audubon's Shearwater
490. June 20 (Jeff Davis) White-eared Hummingbird
491. Magnificent Hummingbird
492. June 21 (Culberson) Spotted Owl
493. June 22 (Cameron) Brown Noddy
[Maybe countable some day--Mangrove Warbler, July 7 (Cameron)]
494. July 30 (Cameron) Parasitic Jaeger
495. Aug. 9 (Brewster) Red-faced Warbler
496. Aug. 20 (Jeff Davis) Lazuli Bunting
497. Aug. 22 (Bexar) Red-necked Phalarope
498. Aug. 25 (Jefferson) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
499. Mourning Warbler
500. Aug. 31 (Culberson) Hammond's Flycatcher
501. Sept. 7 (Brewster) Cassin's Vireo
502. Sept. 21 (Van Zandt) Sabine's Gull
503. Sept. 25 (Travis) Fork-tailed Flycatcher
504. Sept. 28 (Kenedy) Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
505. Oct. 5 (Denton) Black-throated Blue Warbler
506. Oct. 11 (Bexar) Red Phalarope
507. Oct. 11 (Bexar-Vaux's Swift (apparently not countable)
508. Oct. 20 (Culberson) Pygmy Nuthatch
509. Oct. 22 (Jefferson) Varied Thrush
510. Nov. 5 (Cameron) Long-tailed Jaeger
511. Pomarine Jaeger
512. Nov. 11 (Aransas) Greater Flamingo
513. Nov. 15 (Travis) White-winged Scoter
514. Nov. 16 (Travis) Black Scoter
515. Nov. 18 (Culberson) Juniper Titmouse
516. Nov. 21 (Galveston) Surf Scoter
517. Nov. 24 (Bailey) Eurasian Wigeon
518. Nov. 26 (Culberson) Lewis's Woodpecker
519. Dec. 10 (Jeff Davis) Williamson's Sapsucker
520. Dec. 25 (Cameron) Snow Bunting
521. Dec. 27 (El Paso) Red Crossbill
522. Dec. 29 (Hutchinson) Trumpeter Swan
523. Dec. 31 (Tarrant) Mew Gull
(actual number is 522, deleting the Vaux's Swift)
 
Non-review species NOT seen in 2005
Greater Prairie-Chicken*
Aplomado Falcon*
Pinyon Jay
Hermit Warbler
Evening Grosbeak
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* probably no "countable" birds exist in Texas
 

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